In re Wright
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
In bankruptcy. Geprge C. Wright had for several years been the owner and occupant of a comfortable house and lot in Fond du Lae, occupying said premises with his family until about two weeks before proceedings in bankruptcy were commenced against him. He had been doing a small business as a boot and shoe dealer and manufacturer, and a short time before being put into bankruptcy he purchased, on credit, an unusually large amount of goods.
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In bankruptcy. Geprge C. Wright had for several years been the owner and occupant of a comfortable house and lot in Fond du Lae, occupying said premises with his family until about two weeks before proceedings in bankruptcy were commenced against him. He had been doing a small business as a boot and shoe dealer and manufacturer, and a short time before being put into bankruptcy he purchased, on credit, an unusually large amount of goods. The notes for said purchases about becoming payable, he sold his homestead and removed his family into his store. This was a two story building, constructed…
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, District Judge.
Wright with full knowledge that his notes were maturing, sold his homestead, removed his family of six persons into one side of his store, and removed the one-story addition then drawing rent, within three weeks of his bankruptcy, and after he had greatly reduced his stock, without appropriating the proceeds of sales towards the payment of his debts. The homestead and the store property were unin-cumbered. He sold the homestead for cash, less a debt of about $250 he owed the purchaser. And he mortgaged another lot to secure a debt of $900. thereby giving that creditor…
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